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Overview

The Luddite uprising of the early 19th century pitted English textile workers against the machines taking their jobs. The machines won.

If, as experts warn, large numbers of jobs are at risk of automation over the next 20 years, are we likely to encounter similar scenes of upheaval? Or are media reports of robots stealing our jobs misdirected?

If machines can save us time and open up new types of roles, then surely we should embrace the change?

Speakers

Helen Dickinson, Chief Executive, British Retail Consortium

Dr Sabine Hauert, Lecturer in Robotics, University of Bristol

Daniel Susskind, Fellow in Economics, University of Oxford and co-author of The future of the professions: How technology will transform the work of human experts (OUP, 2015)